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Doggy ‘daycare’ bus in Alaska goes viral on TikTok

FOX 11 Los Angeles – A family dog-walking team in Alaska is becoming an internet sensation after posting a video of their doggy "daycare" bus: https://youtu.be/2hfe1dn6yOQ?t=50 WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE. CES 2023: AI smart collar aims to take the guesswork out of your dog’s health with real-time alerts Cotons AI says the collar provides data previously only available in a vet's office By Nikolas Lanum, January 8, 2023 FOXBusiness – Professional-grade veterinary pet biosignals at home could be coming...

Abortionists Attack GOP’s ‘Extremist’ Plan To Save Living Babies

NEWSWEEK – A number of abortion-rights groups have criticized the GOP after House Republicans pushed through a bill requiring an infant born during or after an attempted abortion to receive medical care. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act passed in a House 220-210 vote on Wednesday, with Texas' Henry Cuellar the only Democrat to support the measure. The bill would require all health providers to give the same level of care to a baby born alive...

Robbie Knievel, daredevil son of Evel Knievel, dies at 60

CBS NEWS – Robbie Knievel, son of legendary stuntman Evel Knievel, has died at the age of 60. Knievel died of pancreatic cancer after being in hospice for three days. "It was expected," his brother, Kelly Knievel, told CBS News. "He was in Reno with his three daughters by his side." Known as "Kaptain Robbie Knievel," Robbie Knievel had his own daredevil career with 350 jumps and 20 world records. Knievel was married once and divorced,...

Wisconsin Republicans block ‘conversion therapy’ ban

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans voted Thursday to again allow therapists, social workers and counselors to try to change LGBTQ clients' gender identities and sexual orientations — a discredited practice known as conversion therapy. A ban on conversion therapy was passed in 2020 by a state board within the Democratic governor's administration overseeing licensing for mental health professionals. But a committee in the Republican-controlled Legislature temporarily blocked the ban then and did so again...

WHO calls on countries to tax sugar-sweetened beverages to save lives

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION – Today, WHO released its first-ever global tax manual for sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Currently, at least 85 countries implement some type of SBB taxation. The WHO manual highlights the experiences of countries who have successfully implemented the tax, including Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. WHO targets weight gain and obesity in both children and adults “Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages can be a powerful tool to promote health because they save lives and...

Remembering Lisa Marie Presley: ‘I would never take back any part of who I am or where I came from’

CNN — As the only daughter of the late Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, singer Lisa Marie Presley spent her life in the spotlight from the start. And the public interest in her life — from her marriages to her private tragedies — never waned until, much like her father, she was taken too soon. Lisa Marie Presley died Thursday after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest. She was 54. “Priscilla Presley and the Presley family are shocked...

Term ‘Latinx’ banned from official government use in Arkansas by Gov Sarah Huckabee-Sanders

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (TND) — One of the first actions newly sworn-in Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders made was to prohibit the use of the term “Latinx” throughout the state's government. Agencies in the state will have 60 days to replace the terms “Latinx, latinx, Latinxs, and latinxs” within existing official government documents with “Hispanics, Latino, Latinos, Latina, or Latinas.” The newly sworn-in governor justified the move to ban the term by citing a Pew Research...

What was Tammy Wynette’s cause of death?

Tammy Wynette, born May 5, 1942, in Virginia, suffered health problems all of her life. In 1970, she had a hysterectomy following the birth of her fourth daughter. The surgery signaled the start of Wynette's spiraling health. Wynette died on April 6, 1998, and the doctors at the time declared she'd died of a blood clot in her lungs. However, the news would come out that for the last years of her life, she'd been having more...

Pfizer Board Member Scott Gottlieb Pressured Twitter to Censor Vaccine Criticism

REDSTATE – In the latest edition of the Twitter Files, journalist Alex Berenson revealed the lengths that people in power went to in order to make sure that the party line was maintained – and Twitter went right along with it. But, this wasn’t just government censorship. This was a private company with a financial interest in its COVID vaccine wanting itself to be inoculated from criticism. Dr. Scott Gottleib, who is on the board for...

Illegal aliens pour into U.S. under Biden

Source: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters Southwest Land Border Encounters Demographics for U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) and Office of Field Operations (OFO) include: Accompanied Minors (AM) Individuals in a Family Unit (FMUA) Single Adults Unaccompanied Children (UC) For a breakdown of encounters by USBP Sector and OFO Field Office, visit Southwest Land Border Encounters (By Component). To access the data used to build this dashboard, please visit the CBP Data Portal. "Illegal immigration may expose Americans to diseases that have been virtually eradicated, but are...

VIDEO: Restaurant Customer In Texas Shoots Armed Robber, Returns Money To Victims

TAMPA FREE PRESS – Security footage captured the moment when a customer fatally shot an armed robber who pointed a gun at multiple customers inside a restaurant in southwest Houston, Texas, on Thursday night. Houston police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a male wanted for questioning in the fatal shooting of a robbery suspect at 6873 South Gessner Road at about 11:30 p.m. on Thursday ... READ MORE. Hero taco shop customer who...

Whoopi Goldberg reiterates false claim that Holocaust “wasn’t originally” about race

CBS News – Whoopi Goldberg is again receiving criticism for her false claims about the Holocaust. In an interview published with The Sunday Times of London on Saturday – the sixth day of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah – the actor and "The View" co-host reiterated her claims that the Holocaust "wasn't originally" about race. Goldberg first made the public statements on an episode of "The View" about 10 months ago, saying at the time that "the...

Levine slammed after calling for Big Tech to clean up ‘misinformation’ on sex change

The Washington Times – Dr. Levine, the Biden administration’s assistant health secretary, has drawn pushback after advocating for tech platforms to crack down on “misinformation” about sex change procedures. Dr. Levine was trending Monday on social media after a video surfaced in which the transgender health official called for health workers to pressure tech companies to combat misinformation about “the health equity of sexual and gender minorities.” “There is substantial misinformation about gender-affirming care for transgender...

Florida high court OKs grand jury probe of COVID-19 vaccines

TALLAHASSEE (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court will convene a grand jury at Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' request to investigate any wrongdoing with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines, the court announced Thursday. The Republican governor, who is often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2024, earlier this month called for the investigation. He suggested it would be in part aimed to jog loose more information from pharmaceutical companies about the vaccines and potential side effects. Vaccine...

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